Online Musicians' Survey
You are invited to participate in a study of musicians’ attitudes towards the use of digital technologies. The purpose of the study is to gain insight into how musicians feel about the new technologies, and how it is affecting their work.
What is Music 2.0?
Music 2.0 can be overlaid against the idea of Web 2.0 - a contemporary expression of what TIm Berners-Lee has termed intercreativity - "building together, being creative together".
The Internet has changed everything: Music 2.0 points to a flattening of hierarchies, a disintermediation of traditional arrangements and promising a direct connection between musician and audience.
The incumbent recording industry is in a state of flux. New actors and business models are appearing and challenging the major labels' dominance in the market.
Think: iTunes, Saul Williams, Radiohead, New Found Frequency, The Orchard/Amphead, The Arctic Monkeys, Enter Shikari, MySpace, MP3.com, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne and you'll be some of the way there . . .